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The Presidents and the Supreme Court

What Kind of Nation; Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney; FDR and Chief Justice Hughes

By: James F. Simon

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The Presidents and the Supreme Court

What Kind of Nation; Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney; FDR and Chief Justice Hughes

By: James F. Simon

Collected together, James F. Simon’s books share the bitter struggles and compromises that have characterized the relationship between the presidents and the Supreme Court Chief Justices across US history. The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; the frustration and grudging admiration between FDR and Chief Justice Hughes; the clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. These were the conflicts that ended slavery, that rescued us from the Great Depression, and that defined a nation—for better and for worse. And, Simon brings them to brilliant and compelling life.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451671636

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9781451671636

The Definitive FDR

Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945)

By: James MacGregor Burns

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The Definitive FDR

Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945)

By: James MacGregor Burns

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns’s magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating political figure who instituted the New Deal. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940): Before his ascension to the presidency, FDR laid the groundwork for his unprecedented run with decades of canny political maneuvering and steady consolidation of power. Hailed by the New York Times as “a sensitive, shrewd, and challenging book” and by Newsweek as “a case study unmatched in American political writings,” The Lion and the Fox details Roosevelt’s youth and education, his rise to national prominence, all the way through his first two terms as president. Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945): The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR’s final years examines the president’s skillful wartime leadership as well as his vision for postwar peace. Acclaimed by William Shirer as “the definitive book on Roosevelt in the war years,” and by bestselling author Barbara Tuchman as “engrossing, informative, endlessly readable,” The Soldier of Freedom is a moving profile of a leader gifted with rare political talent in an era of extraordinary challenges.

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Open Road Media

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1504047702

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9781504047708

Old Drury of Philadelphia

A History of the Philadelphia Stage, 18-1835

By: Reese D. James

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Old Drury of Philadelphia

A History of the Philadelphia Stage, 18-1835

By: Reese D. James

Includes the diary or daily account book of William Burke Wood, comanager with William Warren of the Chestnut Street Theatre, familiarly known as Old Drury.

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716

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512802832

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9781512802832

George Humphrey, Charles Wilson and Eisenhower's War on Spending

By: James Worthen

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George Humphrey, Charles Wilson and Eisenhower's War on Spending

By: James Worthen

The first Republican president since the Great Depression, Dwight Eisenhower was the victorious supreme allied commander of World War II's European theater, but a political novice when he moved into the White House in 1953. To help make domestic policy, he recruited two of the country's richest businessmen--Cleveland industrialist George Humphrey and General Motors president Charles Wilson--with the goals of ensuring American postwar prosperity and developing a defense posture against the nuclear threat of the Soviet Union. This book provides the first detailed examination of how Humphrey and Wilson helped shape Eisenhower's policies and priorities. Persuasive and charming, Treasury Secretary Humphrey was obsessed with cutting spending. Defense Secretary Wilson--whose departmental funding comprised most of the federal budget--bore the brunt of Humphrey's anti-spending campaign, while struggling to master his brief and control the restive military bureaucracy. The frugality of the Humphrey-Wilson years manifested in an unambitious domestic agenda and a military that seemed to lag behind the Soviets in key areas, leading to disastrous Republican losses in the elections of 1958 and 1960.

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269

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McFarland

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1476637709

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9781476637709

America's Cold Warrior

Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan

By: James Graham Wilson

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America's Cold Warrior

Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan

By: James Graham Wilson

In America's Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze's career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving in eight presidential administrations, Nitze commanded White House attention even when he was out of government, especially with his withering criticism of Jimmy Carter during Carter's presidency. While Nitze is perhaps best known for leading the formulation of NSC-68, which Harry Truman signed in 1950, Wilson contends that Nitze's most significant contribution to American peace and security came in the painstaking work done in the 1980s to negotiate successful treaties with the Soviets to reduce nuclear weapons while simultaneously deflecting skeptics surrounding Ronald Reagan. America's Cold Warrior connects Nitze's career and concerns about strategic vulnerability to the post-9/11 era and the challenges of the 2020s, where the United States finds itself locked in geopolitical competition with the People's Republic of China and Russia.

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Cornell University Press

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1501776088

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9781501776083

Virtual JFK

Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived

By: James G. Blight,Janet M. Lang,David A. Welch

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Virtual JFK

Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived

By: James G. Blight,Janet M. Lang,David A. Welch

The Virtual JFK DVD is now available For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http: //www.virtualjfk.com/ It Matters Who Is President--Then and Now At the heart of this provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons take on resonance in light of America's current devastating involvement in Iraq. Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated "what if" in U.S. foreign policy, this unique work explores what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling evidence that JFK was ready to end U.S. involvement well before the conflict escalated. With vivid immediacy, readers will feel they are in the president's war room as the debates raged that forever changed the course of American history--and continue to affect us profoundly today as the shadows of Vietnam stretch into Iraq.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742557006

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9780742557000

Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal

By: James T. Patterson

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Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal

By: James T. Patterson

Faced by the disaster of depression, Congress in the early 1930s proved amenable to the far-reaching demands and programs presented to it by the newly elected President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, but by 1937 it showed increasing resistance, even outright opposition, to many New Deal measures. In this study, James T. Patterson examines this resurgence of conservative strength in Congress, focusing upon the personalities and backgrounds of the men involved and upon the key domestic issues which brought them together in an informal coalition opposed to executive plans, especially for the years 1937–1939. From the first the Roosevelt Congress had had its "irreconcilables"—men like Carter Glass, Millard Tydings, and Harry Byrd—who viewed the New Deal with dismay, and in the voting on the public utilities holding company bill and the surprise tax measure of 1935 they were joined by a significant number of other congressmen who had hitherto supported the administration. It was, however, Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court that proved to be the turning point. This controversial measure provided a common issue on which conservatives, both Republican and Democratic, could unite—the "irreconcilables," Republicans like Arthur Vandenberg, others like Charles McNary, and nominal Democratic progressives like Burton K. Wheeler. Following this crucial confrontation, the bipartisan conservative coalition was able to control enough votes to oppose the administration on such key measures as the fair labor standards and housing bills of 1937, the reorganization and tax bills of 1938, and the relief and tax bills of 1939. Incited by grievances over patronage, a feeling that the emergency was past, and fears of radicalism, congressmen increasingly asserted their independence of executive leadership. In this 1966 Organization of American Historians award-winning book, Patterson has provided a new exploration of one of the most significant developments in recent American history-the creation by conservative congressmen of a pattern of cooperation that continues to exert a potent influence upon the course of legislation.

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395

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813186447

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9780813186443

Broken Promise

The Subversion Of U.S. Labor Relations

By: James Gross

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Broken Promise

The Subversion Of U.S. Labor Relations

By: James Gross

This inside look at government regulations analyzes the failure of the Wagner-Taft-Hartley Act.

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Temple University Press

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1439903700

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9781439903704

George Ball

Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy

By: James A. Bill

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George Ball

Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy

By: James A. Bill

Diplomat and "wise man" George Ball wielded enormous influence in American foreign policy for more than 40 years. Drawing on Ball's personal archive as well as extensive interviews with Ball and dozens of his associates, Bill traces Ball's involvement with foreign policy, from the 1940s to Ball's death in 1994. 19 illustrations.

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Yale University Press

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0300076460

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9780300076462

Nuclear Strategy

The Jim King Manuscripts

By: Glen Segell,James Edward King

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Nuclear Strategy

The Jim King Manuscripts

By: Glen Segell,James Edward King

Lawrence Freedman wrote in his acclaimed book The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, 'James King permitted me to read a copy of his own masterly unpublished study entitled The New Strategy', (London. Macmillan in association with the International Institute for Strategic Studies. 1981) p.xii. There were in fact nine drafts of the manuscript written by James E. King Jr (Jim) from 1948 to 1988. Correspondence indicates that Lawrence Freedman probably read a copy in 1976 of a version given by Jim King to Ken Booth in 1973. Eight of these drafts are provided in their original unaltered form on a CD to accompany this volume. The ninth draft is not enclosed as it remains classified as 'Top Secret'. A declassified paper entitled 'The Intellectuals and the Bombs presented in 1982' provides insight for a likely reasoning of such a classification despite a publication contract with The Free Press.

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Glen Segell Publishers

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1901414280

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9781901414288

Inside Inside

By: James Lipton

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Inside Inside

By: James Lipton

Over the years, Inside the Actors Studio has brought more than 200 of the world’s most celebrated actors, directors, writers and performing artists into 84,000,000 homes in America and 125 countries around the world. Now James Lipton—its host and creator—is offering the reader of this book a backstage pass to the award-winning series—and to his own amazing journey to its stage. You will witness, in unprecedented close-up, the wit, wisdom and candor of a galaxy of stars, from Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Robin Williams and Steven Spielberg to Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and many more. With the same candor he demands of his guests, James Lipton also reveals a life that began under the tutelage of a poet, his father, and a teacher, his mother; continued in the orbit of theatrical giants like Stella Adler; and, as writer and producer, took him to the White House with two presidents, the Great Wall of China with Bob Hope, and legendary days and nights in New York, London, and Paris with “the heroes of his life” and ours. This book is a sincere and passionate celebration of the arts and artists we admire—and thought we knew until this moment.

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536

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Penguin

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1101211997

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9781101211991

Newport Through Its Architecture

A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern

By: James L. Yarnall

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Newport Through Its Architecture

A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern

By: James L. Yarnall

A comprehensive architectural history of America's greatest living architectural laboratory.

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UPNE

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1584654910

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9781584654919

Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830

By: Alice Eichholz,James M. Rose

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Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830

By: Alice Eichholz,James M. Rose

Published originally in 1981, the work at hand is an alphabetical listing of all free African-American heads of household listed in the five U.S. censuses for the State of New York taken between 1790 and 1830. Since it was during this 40-year period that the New York legislature passed a series of statutes resulting in the gradual emancipation of the state's slave population, the scope of this work documents the emergence of a completely free black population by 1830. In all, there are 15,000 references to freedmen, many of whom appear in more than one census.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806351993

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9780806351995

The Wetmore Family of America

By: James Carnahan Wetmore

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The Wetmore Family of America

By: James Carnahan Wetmore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375068093

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9783375068097

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The Presidents and the Supreme Court

The Presidents and the Supreme Court

The Definitive FDR

The Definitive FDR

Old Drury of Philadelphia

Old Drury of Philadelphia

George Humphrey, Charles Wilson and Eisenhower's War on Spending

George Humphrey, Charles Wilson and Eisenhower's War on Spending

America's Cold Warrior

America's Cold Warrior

Virtual JFK

Virtual JFK

Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal

Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal

Broken Promise

Broken Promise

George Ball

George Ball

Nuclear Strategy

Nuclear Strategy

Inside Inside

Inside Inside

Newport Through Its Architecture

Newport Through Its Architecture

Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830

Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830

The Wetmore Family of America

The Wetmore Family of America

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